So, which is it for you: whales or your wallet? Do you want to save the world, or do you want financial success? Anna Laycock from...
The parliamentary banking commission has criticised three ex-HBOS executives over their “colossal failure” amid the financial crisis of 2008, and called for the trio to be...
The now defunct Financial Services Authority (FSA) has been replaced by three shiny new three-lettered abbreviations, after the chancellor’s reform of financial regulation took affect this...
One of the UK ethical banking sector’s biggest names, Charity Bank, is to drop its status as a registered charity in an effort to boost its...
The final name to appear in our rundown of environmentally-minded politicians this week is Park Geun-hye – president of South Korea. She follows representatives from Brazil,...
Triodos Bank, one Europe’s leading sustainable banks, has revealed that both its balance sheet and customer base have grown by 23% in the past year –...
The Co-operative Bank has admitted its procedures had “fallen short of the high standards” it expects, after the Financial Services Authority (FSA) handed it a £113,300...
Pseudoscientists, especially those who have books or films to sell, have long declared the end of the current Mayan long count calendar, December 21 2012, as...
Up until this year, I banked with HSBC. I’d done so since receiving a shiny red money box from them at the age of seven. It...
HSBC was today fined £1.2bn (1% of market capitalisation) over US claims that it was engaged in money laundering for terrorists. Its “profoundly sorry” CEO, Stuart...
In the wake of the financial crisis, new research suggests that both the demand for and understanding of ethical investment has grown in the past 12...
Mark Carney will replace Sir Mervyn King as Bank of England governor in July next year, and in doing so, will take on one of the...
We seem to be locked in an endless financial crisis. Starting with a sub-prime housing bubble, complex financial derivatives linked to those assets contaminated global finance,...
Penny Shepherd, chief executive of the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF), spoke with Alex Blackburne about National Ethical Investment Week, the Green Investment Bank...
The financial crisis was caused in part by a moral crisis in society, in which governments made promises they could not keep and bankers sold products...